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There is no one downtown after 5pm on any day. It's bleak.
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visiting a friend yesterday, they put a whole bunch of traffic shaping stuff in his neighbourhood. curved residential streets rather than just going straight, lots of barriers at intersection so you have to stop around the curve rather than being able to blow through a stop sign. ftw they should do this everywhere
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i visited jefferson city MO for a work trip like a decade ago, truly grim town
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Why is water rolling off the smaller lower umbrella if the bigger one is there to protect the lower ones
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Mauser posted:Why is water rolling off the smaller lower umbrella if the bigger one is there to protect the lower ones piss
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that guy is really good at nipping out https://twitter.com/guaph/status/1670084959837487104
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Dime Store The Rock
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Looking at a company I might work for, but they're 20 km away in a business park that had no public transport, insane traffic to get to/from every day and absolutely no cycle route to or from that avoids tiny roads with heavy truck traffic that I would absolutely be killed on. A combination of natural (rivers and inlets) and man-made (highways and train lines) obstacles make it the least cycle-friendly area to cycle to I've ever seen in my life. It loving frustrates me because I know if I want to work there I'm either going to be killed or have to sit in poo poo traffic for 45 minutes each way every day.
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I was at a seaside resort over the weekend, and they were offering bike rentals, so of course I had to give it a shot. These bikes were not very well maintained - the first one I tried had a loose seat post that collapsed to the bottom at the slightest weight. The second one I tried no brakes whatsoever. The third one's chain was so rusted out that you couldn't really change gears on it anymore, but at least it was left in a middle gear. Now, this was a Spanish-colonial-themed seaside resort, so the streets were made of faux-cobblestone. This made riding around... challenging to say the least. Even though it was an MTB you could still feel every little bump on your wrists and your crotch. But eventually, I got to a part where they'd built a long pier/boulevard that extended 300 meters out into the water, and it was just flat cement, and even on this slow, dingy-rear end bike, once I had the wind at my back and the sea spray in my hair, it felt great. Just a real feeling of speed and freedom.
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I love renting lovely bikes on vacation. Hoping to do that next week. It's a few miles between my lodging and the beach.
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I'm sorry but I'm immediately going to follow-up that post with a real bummer.code:quote:J. P. Rizal cor. I. Cruz, Vergara, Mandaluyong City of course, there's some victim-blaming in the replies. https://twitter.com/iluvchrryblossm/status/1670226510312263680 not to get too political here, but I'm highlighting this one because the pink avatar and the banner image belies his person as a supporter of failed liberal presidential candidate Leni Robredo, which just goes to show how car-brain infects even purported progressives.
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actionjackson posted:that guy is really good at nipping out https://twitter.com/guaph/status/1670173977916874753?t=9XYGuho5GfANVeXURX8Rjg&s=19 Good post
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I watched a guy drive into the intersection after his light changed, realize that he had no way to get out, and then reverse without checking where he was going, nearly hitting a pedestrian. I guess it's the pedestrian's fault for being in the middle of a crosswalk so aggressively.
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Blackhawk posted:Looking at a company I might work for, but they're 20 km away in a business park that had no public transport, insane traffic to get to/from every day and absolutely no cycle route to or from that avoids tiny roads with heavy truck traffic that I would absolutely be killed on. When you say no to the job, please tell them that it would have been a perfect fit except for their location and infrastructure. Also, if you're really cool, get those 1.5 hours on the clock instead.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Dime Store The Rock It's not a Dime Store, it's a car dealership. Keep up.
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hey thanks for the bike bottle recommendations, apparently the Podium Ice bottle still had ice in it after two hours in texas yesterday, it was about 90F
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:apparently the Podium Ice bottle still had ice in it after two hours in texas yesterday, it was about 90F That's right
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saw a guy do this exact thing yesterday lol
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:saw a guy do this exact thing yesterday lol my commute for the last year and a half has been 20 minutes of pushing a stroller followed by eight minutes of cycling, and if I had a go-pro strapped to my head I could put together a reel of at least 3 or 4 insane maneuvers from this roughly 3 mile commute every single day. generic stuff like drivers flying through reds, more specialized stuff like drivers turning left through a red "no left turn arrow" while the cycletrack next to them has a green and there are parents pedaling their kids through the intersection, speeding, stop sign running, driving down a protected cycletrack, swerving through intersections to narrowly avoid hitting pedestrians who have the walk sign, driving the wrong way on one-way streets, truly prolific amounts of turning without either signaling a turn or checking the unprotected bike lane first, and tons of stuff like in that video: going straight through an intersection from a turn-only lane without checking for other cars going straight, making turns from the center lane in front of cars that are stopped, etc. it rules to live in a country where traffic deaths are sky-high to start with and only going up up up
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:my commute for the last year and a half has been 20 minutes of pushing a stroller followed by eight minutes of cycling, and if I had a go-pro strapped to my head I could put together a reel of at least 3 or 4 insane maneuvers from this roughly 3 mile commute every single day. it's not even a class thing. "working class" people are some of the worst at mowing down kiddies along with richie audis
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Cops in North America haven't meaningfully enforced routine traffic poo poo in forever and for whatever reason it took covid to make a bunch of people decide to exploit this.
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Xaris posted:we had a good discussion of this in the econ thread awhile back but the better question is, why shouldn't the masses be doing this? exactly! if you look at how our streets are designed, the general lack of enforcement for driving rules, the often-meaningless consequences when you do get caught, the way the law and society treat dangerous drivers... in pretty much every way the drivers who are doing this poo poo are the ones who have correctly sussed out the actual rules of the road as they exist in practice, not on paper. we can sit here and say you can't do this or you can't do that, but if a bunch of drivers are getting up every day and breaking every law on the books and are getting away with it, then clearly you can gun it through that red and almost murder someone. the law won't even treat it like murder if they fail to get out of your way!
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leftist heap posted:Cops in North America haven't meaningfully enforced routine traffic poo poo in forever and for whatever reason it took covid to make a bunch of people decide to exploit this. There was a hit and run here recently where eyewitnesses got the license plate but the driver said that it wasn't him and the cops just shrugged and went "well what can you do".
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fuckin Huggins was pulled over with a .21 bac for reference the legal limit where he was pulled over is .08. dude was blitzed
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Peanut President posted:fuckin Huggins was pulled over with a .21 bac He drove drunk from Columbus to Pittsburgh and still thought he was in Columbus
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A guy drove almost 100mph off an off ramp around here and killed 5 people in another car. Also, it may have been in part because he was being pursued by a state trooper who didn’t have his lights or sirens on. So there was no warning or capacity to react for anyone else!
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Boywhiz88 posted:A guy drove almost 100mph off an off ramp around here and killed 5 people in another car. just another day on lake street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_XERNubwo actionjackson has issued a correction as of 19:47 on Jun 19, 2023 |
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Won't somebody think of the motorists https://twitter.com/AmericanFietser/status/1670780152446328833
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This guy got pulled over by his own police escort, lol.
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lol that cross walk sign america is diseased
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Aright, you sad sacks of poo poo I'm here to bring a ray of sunshine to this thread. I biked down to the ocean this weekend towing a drat boat I built and then launched it and sailed off into the sunset. Because sure, you can go boating without a car.
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